This final week of term started with an amazing Charity Fundraising Dinner for our Zambia trip at the Olive Tree Restaurant in Loughton. It was a great night with over 85 staff, parents, relatives and friends enjoying some wonderful live music, outstanding food and great company all in a good cause. We hope to raise over £1200 as a result of the meal and I would like to thank Mrs Bentley and ‘Team Zambia’ for putting together such a great night. I would like to especially thank Manos and Jackie at the Olive Tree Restaurant for their generosity, support and contribution towards the evening. Nothing was too much trouble (including a surprise birthday cake) and everyone was looked after extremely well. It is superb that a local business would be prepared to support us in this way and really helps develop the sense of ‘community’ between the school and local businesses. Whilst the Easter Holiday is a time for rest and relaxation for most students, our ever popular Easter Revision School for Year 11students starts next week. Students should have already signed up for their specific sessions and the timetable for the sessions is contained in the main part of the bulletin. Regardless of whether or not Year 11s are attending the revision classes it is imperative that they are all undertaking a detailed programme of revision. With the first ‘formal’ GCSE examination starting on May 8th the time for preparing is now! Along with Mr Tisdale, I had the pleasure of judging the first ever ‘Roding Valley Bake Off’ Competition for Year 7 students on Tuesday. Whilst the competition did nothing for my waistline, the food produced was absolutely amazing and it was incredibly difficult to choose a winner! It was so close and in the end we couldn’t separate the best 2 so congratulations go to our winners: Max Collings (7Q) and Bogomil Nikolov (7X) We start the selection process with our Year 10 students for our Prefects after the Easter Holiday. There is a very clear and strict selection process that it set out in detail later on in this Parentmail. I would like to re-iterate the following to parents and students so that everyone is clear about the process of selecting a prefect: The process is a competitive, selection process for a limited number of prefect positions (64 prefect positions available). Last year we had 134 applications for 64 places. This mean that, unfortunately, there will inevitably be some disappointed students The selection process involves a ‘shortlisting’ against clear criteria (including the quality of the written application). I would be grateful if Year 10 Parents could make this clear to their child prior to submitting an application. It has been a very busy and eventful term and the school continues to progress. Our predictive data suggests that this year’s GCSE results will be the highest ever (for the 3rd year running) and the school is in a great position. I would like to thank every member of the school community (parents, students, staff and governors) for their continued support in helping make Roding Valley the great school that it is. School resumes after the Easter Holiday on Tuesday 22nd April 2014. I wish everyone an enjoyable and restful holiday. Paul Banks Headteacher You can follow us at www.rodingvalley.net , on Facebook at the ‘Roding Valley High School Official’ page or on Twitter (@RodingValleyHS). You can also sign up to our free electronic media release service at rodingvalleymedia@gmail.com
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